A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1871)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 133
121 ILLUSTRATED IN ART. the air for a great distance about him, and all who breathed it, per- ished from its pestilential effects. The children were chosen by lot, and were less than fifteen years old. Now the king had a daughter, named Cleodolinda, whom he loved exceedingly. At length the lot fell… … (Raphael — Louvre.) St. George of Cappadocia. the kingdom, that she might be spared ; but the people said that as it was by his own edict that their children had been sacrificed, there was no reason for allowing him to withhold his own, and they threatened to take the princess by force, if she was…
Art · Christian art and symbolism · Legends · Mythology
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